Business Process Visual ARCHITECT is a ground breaking business modeling tool designed for visualizing, understanding, analyzing, improving and documenting business processes, document flow and information in your organization. BP-VA supports business process modeling with Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), Data or Document flow modeling with a traditional Data Flow Diagram (DFD), as well as Data Modeling through the requisite Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD). Our cutting edge visual modeling interface greatly reduces the modeling effort while delivering tidy documentation showing how your business is run.
We introduced this tool in FCL and Smart Service Queensland (SSQ).
This tool suite is our tool of choice, it is less expensive and very reactive to the changes in the notations.
PowerDesigner uniquely combines several standard modeling techniques (UML, Business Process Modeling and market-leading data modeling) together with leading development environments, such as .NET, Workspace, PowerBuilder, Java, and Eclipse, to bring business analysis and formal design solutions to the traditional software development lifecycle. And it works with more than 60 RDBMS.
We used this tool in Queensland Health, it is very comprehencive but in general to expensive for most organisations.
Enterprise Architect combines the power of the latest UML 2.1 specification with a high performance, intuitive interface, to bring advanced modeling to the desktop, and to the complete development and implementation team. With a great feature set and unsurpassed value for money, EA can outfit your whole team, including analysts, testers, project managers, quality control staff, deployment team and more, for a fraction of the cost of some competing products. Check out the complete range of case tools and features in detail..
We used this tool in NEHTA, cleaned up the "mistakes made" and put the team back on the road.
System Architect is an enterprise architecture tool that is used by the business and IT departments of major commercial corporations, government civilian agencies, and government military agencies to build models of all aspects of their business operations and the systems, applications, and databases that support them. System Architect is used to build DoDAF architectures.
The Architecture Development and Analysis Survey, conducted by MITRE Corporation for the US Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks & Information Integration (OASD NII) and revealed at the CISA worldwide conference on December 1, 2005, reported that out of 96 programs building DoDAF architectures responding to the survey, 77% used System Architect, either by itself (48%) or in conjunction with another modeling tool (29%).[1] (Wikipedia.org)
IDEFØ is a method designed to model the decisions, actions, and activities of an organization or system. IDEFØ was derived from a well-established graphical language, the Structured Analysis and Design Technique (SADT)..
The Unified Modeling Language™ - UML - is OMG's most-used specification, and the way the world models not only application structure, behavior, and architecture, but also business process and data structure.
UML, along with the Meta Object Facility (MOF™), also provides a key foundation for OMG's Model-Driven Architecture®, which unifies every step of development and integration from business modeling, through architectural and application modeling, to development, deployment, maintenance, and evolution.
A standard Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) will provide businesses with the capability of understanding their internal business procedures in a graphical notation and will give organizations the ability to communicate these procedures in a standard manner. Furthermore, the graphical notation will facilitate the understanding of the performance collaborations and business transactions between the organizations. This will ensure that businesses will understand themselves and participants in their business and will enable organizations to adjust to new internal and B2B business circumstances quickly.
Object Role Modeling (ORM) is a powerful method for designing and querying database models at the conceptual level, where the application is described in terms easily understood by non-technical users. In practice, ORM data models often capture more business rules, and are easier to validate and evolve than data models in other approaches.
ITIL is the most widely accepted approach to IT service management in the world. Providing a cohesive set of best practice guidance drawn from the public and private sectors across the world, it has recently undergone a major and important refresh project.
IT Service Management (ITSM) derives enormous benefits from a best practice approach. Because ITSM is driven both by technology and the huge range of organisational environments in which it operates, it is in a state of constant evolution. Best practice, based on expert advice and input from ITIL users is both current and practical, combining the latest thinking with sound, common sense guidance.
